A.G. Gancarski
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is explaining his lopsided win over Val Demings Tuesday by suggesting a panoply of issues motivated voters.
Including, he claims, “the U.N. Climate Change Conference happening this week,” which somehow drove “common sense” Hispanic voters specifically.
The COP 27 conference, which runs through Nov. 18 in Egypt, was not a talking point at all in the Senate campaign. However, Rubio suggested on Fox News Wednesday that it was among the factors that motivated Hispanic voters specifically to back him over Demings.
“You’re not going to convince them that we should care more about allowing illegal immigrants in, the U.N. Climate Conference that they’re having this week, criminals running through the streets,” Rubio told Sean Hannity. “You put those things over them and their interest, they’re going to punish you at the ballot box.”
“That’s what they did to Democrats here in Florida,” Rubio added. “That’s what I wish we would be seeing in other parts of the country.”
The Senator putting climate change mitigation in the same context as street crime and illegal immigration feels like yet another attempt to calibrate rhetoric on the issue, which has been a constant since the Senator was in Tallahassee more than a decade ago.
As Politifact notes in an article called “Rubio once dismissed climate change, but he doesn’t anymore,” the Senator has had shifting positions on climate change since the beginning of his political career. They rated “half-true” a Demings tweet contending Rubio didn’t “care about climate change,” citing several occasions where Rubio acknowledged the concept in recent years.
Beyond the climate change comment, much of what Rubio said to Hannity dealt with what he believes is a larger shift among Hispanic voters.
Rubio said it was part of a “change that is happening to people who are not traditionally identified with the Republican Party. Particularly, working-class, small business owning Hispanics.”
“Hispanic families who have common sense and who don’t want schools indoctrinating their kids, who perhaps have firsthand or family experience with socialism and leftism and don’t want any part of it in this country. And frankly, who want to live in a society that’s governed by leaders with common sense,” Rubio continued.
11 comments
Elliott Offen
November 10, 2022 at 10:03 am
“Socialism” as opposed to dictatorial rule by billionaires? Many Hispanics came from places where they lived 3 to a house but here they live 20 to a house. What is this? Whoever voted for this cold drink of piss should be shot. Modern socialism is not Cuban communism. You notice these GOP shills for the rich never mention successful socialist economic models like we see in West Germany and the Nordic countries. People are happier there because right wing politics and shilling for the super rich isn’t happening there.
CalmDown
November 11, 2022 at 7:27 am
Maybe advocating the shooting of political opponents isnt the best argument for your side in a democracy. Just saying.
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Tom
November 10, 2022 at 10:20 am
“Hispanics flee other countries because of oppressive governments. They should be happier here where there is no government.” – Marco Rubio
Yrral
November 10, 2022 at 11:27 am
Florida will be under the water decades from now,as the rises and the ocean boil,and another Hurricane hit Lee County by Thanksgiving , Florida will be plaque with tropical diseases like Malaria,and be quarantine from the rest of the US and python ,Rubio is full of BS
Tom
November 10, 2022 at 12:03 pm
The billionaires will have Florida people eating their babies before then. The grifters will destroy Florida way before the sea level.
Joe Corsin
November 10, 2022 at 11:48 am
Yeah I see Rubio and Fraud Scott always mentioning Cuban and Chinese communism but NEVER modern socialism like we see in West Germany and Scandinavian countries. Gee I wonder why? Because something like that here would interfere with their grifts, tax evasion, and exploitation schemes and they would have to sacrifice a little of their own happiness to make the population as a whole happier and healthier…and they aren’t going to do that. Rich Republicans are hogs of the lowest order and the stupid people who vote for them aren’t doing anything for this nation. Money doesn’t trickle down. It trickles up. Just remember that.
Mr. Haney
November 10, 2022 at 12:03 pm
Rubio is a useless coward of a twit.
Yrral
November 10, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Ask these people in Daytona Beach that had their houses wash into the ocean Google Dayton Beach Hurricane Surge
Ocean Joe
November 11, 2022 at 6:02 am
Tomorrow he will have his hand out for federal funds to replenish the beaches along the north east Florida coast, while criticising govt. spending. He is the most flip-floppingest guy in politics.
People forced to abandon their homes and cities in low lying areas around the world ought to be telling us something.
tom palmer
November 11, 2022 at 8:27 am
Maybe at the top of the list for Rubio’s win was an unexciting opponent who could never come up with a coherent message on why she would be elected and he shouldn’t. The fact of the matter is that some Hispanics, especially the Cubans, come from countries without strong democratic traditions (Don’t see too many Costa Rican refugees, do you?) and so they’re used to the strongman politics the GOP has symbolized.
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